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2018 Austin Music Award nominee for Best Songwriter and Austin's New Band is dropping her first debut album on September 20, 2019, and celebrating with an album release show. Come see what this 17-year-old has been up to! Cover is $5 at the door.

Yeah, no, this is a monumental showing of work – including a series of paintings commissioned for the exhibition – by one of the best, most provocative artists working on this planet. The former Austinite (he taught at UT for 20 years) Michael Ray Charles "is known for art that investigates the legacy of historic racial stereotypes of African Americans. Since the 1990s, he's created complex, layered paintings that challenge stereotypes, power dynamics, and social and cultural hierarchies." Ah, words can't even – but our Arts Editor Robert Faires offers a fine preview right here.

For this new show, native Texan artist Jesus Toro Martinez has converted items from our collective carelessness — aluminum cans, restaurant take out containers, old newspapers, plastic cups, plastic grocery bags, and on and on and on — into landscapes of Texas.

The Texas Conference for Women – the state's largest professional development conference – celebrates its 20th anniversary with special keynotes from USWNT's co-captain and equality advocate Megan Rapinoe; award-winning actress, producer, director, and activist Tracee Ellis Ross, Morgan Stanley Executive Carla Harris, and way more with the goal of promoting diversity and inclusion for women of color and queer women.

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Tickets to the main conference (Oct. 24) are sold out, but tickets for opening night are still available and provides a "taste" of what the main conference is like in condensed timeframe and lower price. It's also possible to purchase Conference Day Livestream ($50) to watch the keynotes and your choice of two breakout sessions. See site for details.

The Dance Department of Austin Community College offers classes in modern, jazz, ballet, and improvisation techniques, with student work produced twice a year in the Choreographers' Showcase. Teachers include Ellen Bartel, Jessica Cox, Kathy Dunn Hamrick, Roxanne Gage, Darla Johnson, Sunny Shen, Catherine Solaas and Melissa Watt. Note: Classes can be taken for credit and applied toward your degree.

This school of representational art is led by four world-class locals, teaches drawing and painting (both fundamental and advanced programs), has open studios with live modeling, a schedule of workshops featuring visiting artists from around the world, and is located in the heart of Big Medium's Canopy complex. Oh look – we profiled and interviewed the faculty right here!

Please arrive to Uncle Billy's by 6:30 as the run will begin precisely at 6:45. The fall/winter route is a 5k figure eight around the Long Center. An organizer will go over the route prior to the start, and route details can be found on the website. All speeds are welcome. Stick around for a post-run beer.: Free validated parking is available in the Uncle Billy's garage. Additional parking can be found on Kinney Avenue and near the Butler Shores softball fields on Toomey Road.: For ABRC events, all beer runners run at their own risk. Please use caution and exercise good judgment as ABRC is not responsible for injury or accidents.

Austin's Major League Soccer team, Austin FC, is officially taking deposits for 2021 season memberships. Your deposit will reserve your spot in line, which means the earlier you purchase your membership, the earlier you're eligible to select your seats for the season.

There's Sugar Water Purple on Wednesday nights – look, we reviewed their show right here. And this Thursday features improv supergroup Friends for NowNobody Likes Me, then Friday brings the one-two of Kenny/Rogers and Butterfly Defect, right before the laser-sharp ladies of Loverboy, the Live at ColdTowne stand-up showcase, and Improvised Reality. Saturday features Liz Behan's One Woman At Dusk, followed by Way Down In the Hole and the complications that arise when there's a mysterious death on the dance floor of a gay bar, and – oh, see website for more!

Yippee ki yay, space cadet, it's time to head 'em off at the Pass Nebula as the State History Museum presents an exhibition that spans more than 150 years of Western and science fiction history and features 100-plus artifacts (including props from Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, and other skiffy media fare).